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  • I heard this in Copenhagen last night. Vocals were perfect, solos mimicked the studio version closely. It was brilliant - much better than this video

  • 5:37 Myung and Portnoy!

  • this should be called surrender…LaBrie can't sing properly and Rudess is sucks…this song lost it's atmosphere…I like kevin's version…

  • ok james vocal in this video suck...but still DT have their own charisma....

  • James's vocals are horrendous. Stop fooling yourselves people the vocals are bad

  • and on vocals.... JESUS CHRIST !!!!

  • In the part of the solos, do not understand how much power the world supports together. IT'S FUCKING EPIC!!!

  • 6:15 Petrucci cums

  • JAAA MYUNG

    

  • grande james! ha cambiato tecnica in modo da arrivare alle note alte per il problema che ha avuto....devi avere due coglioni cosi per fare questo...

  • You know, James' vocal imperfections are actually one of my favorite things about DT. They give the music a human touch.

  • @EddieMaiden92 Very well put. No matter way they are now (they are still great now) They will always be the gentlemen who delivered such masterpieces of albums like Images and Words and Awake among the rest of the great albums. That can never be taken away. Same with people who naysay about Metallica. Do people forget what they did in the 80's? Apaprently they do. I never will. To conclude. Dream Theater rock and always will in my mind and surely the minds of other's as you suggest.

  • @4:54 LOOK AT THAT BUTT

  • @rhysandrews WTF? u gay or a girl? hahaha

  • I thought James sounded great here; Very crisp and the pitch is 95% of the time spot on as opposed to some other songs he sings and especially on this tour. The problem I have is with JP's solo.

  • Why did they do that to the solo? :(

  • Portnoy needs to rejoin on vocals.

  • wow james was really fucked up here! but im happy that his voice came back :)

  • 23 PERSONAS NO CONOCEN DE MUSICA¡¡¡

  • @emmanuelkine Escuchan pop seguramente, o la mierda de Regayton o cumbia ... La cosa es que son TODOS PUTOS

  • 23 PERSONAS NO CONOCEN DE MUSICA¡¡¡

  • This sucks big time I'm sorry. Want to see how this song should really sound like? Check out their 1993 Images and Words: Live in Tokyo. And bring back Kevin Moore, please!

  • @JDMAURO78 kevin heavly owns rudess

  • @JDMAURO78 Kevin chose to quit, no other DT member played a significant role in that. They can't just bring him back. If THEY wanted to, they'd probably have asked him by now.

  • HELLLLLYEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ESTO ESTA DEMAS DE CABILLAA

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  • the lights actually go dark to light light to dark dark to light on 5:31 lol

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  • wow surrounded from chaos in motion sounds cool

  • Why is James singing so badly? :O I know he had the food poisoning that lead to the damage of his vocal chords but he got ok for a while ago now.. and nowdays he can sing really well

  • @FinnFlame it's because he cut his hair for the new album

  • 1:58 John plays a riff. Then Jordan plays the same riff again!

  • I love Petrucci's new riffs... his music really matured over the years... He was great then... He's greater now...

  • poor james, sometimes was very difficult sing, anyway... before or now i love his voice...

  • dream theater is so boring to watch but they are talented

  • @krete777 It's not boring if your a musician.

  • @DustinShaneYounce exacly!

    

  • @DustinShaneYounce I AM a musician buddy. In fact, when I started playing around 11 years ago, dream theater was some of the first stuff I tackled, once I learned green day/offspring/metallica.

    I'm just saying, they are so boring even if they are mad talented. the music itself is so old and un-entertaining. I'm really hoping that the new DT album with the new drummer is going to rock,but I have my doubts

  • @krete777 oh, you said boring to watch, so i thought you weren't interested in watching them play.

  • @DustinShaneYounce i think he meant cuz they just kinda stand there.

  • @EpsilonX I thought that at first too, but wasn't sure so i figured he didn't like it so just w/e it's over now.

  • on the album version, the first guitar bit which is like 3:46 on here, it sounds dead anthemic, and really uplifting. but on this video, because John had be dicking around in the intro with a few licks, it kinda dumbed down the important-ness of the whole guitar lick in the album. if anyone made any sense of this comment, and found you experience the same feeling, don't hesitate to comment back. :)

  • james sounds funny on 5:30

  • What the hell is Labrie doing? He sounds like an old grandma...

  • so where is this filmed

  • whatever people say....for me dream theater is still great and james great too...

    if you think james voices sucks then f##k off!!!!!!!!!!

  • james sucks with beard

  • duck, duck to light, light to duck...? :S

  • .......this is awful..... im sorry but this performance is just TERRIBLE! everything seems off, just UGH!

  • @2:43 James is like: "Yeah, it's Surrounded... and I have to hit those notes, damnit!"

  • the keyboard intro sounds like.. God's smiling at you.

  • i love Jameses voice...i don't know a singer who is perfect in live...

  • 6:19 - Jesus!

  • How can anyone of you say, that James can't sing in this video. Of course he sounds not perfect, but he hits most of the highs exactly. Most of you will never recognize, how heavy it is to sing that parts and melodies. James LaBrie is an amazing singer.

    In my opinion, DT including Myles Kennedy, would not be near as good as DT with James LaBrie, though Myles is my absolutely favorite singer. DT & Myles wouldn't fit together. ...

  • @huttisau James doesn't even hit a lot of the lower notes in key on this performance let a lone the higher ones, and that's only a small part of the problem. He sings in short staccato bursts, his vibrato is atrocious, and his voice is really strained and nasally. The only song he sounds good in on this DVD is Take the Time, and even that performance is sub par when compared with his overall performance on the Score DVD. James simply hasn't been sounding all that great the last few years.

  • Imagine this band with Myles Kennedy.  James Labrie is the only bad part of this band.

  • WTF!!!!John Myung is a fucking ninja one sec he's on stage the next 5:59 hes playing the drums and the next hes next to Rudess

  • Seriously..what's wrong with DT in this concert? First of all..why is Surrounded played so slow? It's missing all the rhytm..it sux in this way; seems like they have problems going on time. And LaBrie..for God's sake..what's wrong with him? It sounds like a drunk chicken. Finally..they should all get a barber and a cutting in their daily diet..besides Myung that never changes yr after yr..they look like they ran out from an obesity clinic

  • @borghese84 John Petrucci is not fat. It's the brutal muscles that come with playing the guitar on extreme insane intergalactic level.

  • Did someone watch it from the top ten list? "Top Ten Dream Theater Songs" What do you think?

  • maravilloso tema, una creación estupenda.

  • Fantastic Jordan , learned with the master Jan, great song , Kevin Moore was influenced by Genesis - Throwing It All Away , sounds like it (rock version) .

  • I can't find a single video where he is playing the solo like on the album =(

  • Damn, James.

  • James is singing with D.T for more than 20 years,He is was present in every single day in their adventures which include Hours and hours singing in just one day.Plus when you have ,Portnoy,Petrucci,Jordan and Myung behind,Man your Voice must be very very powerful even with a Good mic..and also you must be very very careful with the Technic aspect of the songs whitch contain thousands of notes..So i think No one Can Do what he did knowing that he broke a chord vocal in 1994.

  • @chapelsixty Exactly right. People don't give James the credit he should get.

  • The solo battle was amazing.....

  • Nice manboobs James.

  • Had James been to the Dentist just before the show? O_O

  • Haha! And people claim that Petrucci's got no feel >:P

    Blasphemy I say!!!!! D:

  • Nothing like Score, though.

    James LaBrie, that is. His voice was perfect on the Score DVD. Although that could have been edited later on.

  • @shoppingeffect: I think his performance - in general - is not that bad. From 5:30 to 6:00 was bad thought.

  • What a lovely intro !!!!! an old style mellotron intro for an old nostalgic and classic song from this band.. I felt my world was upside down when they played this song here years ago. Thank you Dream Theater

  • lol la brie sounds like a nazi cartoon character

  • i love this part  6:57 !!!!, i can feel the power of PETRUCCI AND RUDESS

  • sure he sounds bad, it's michael douglas singing!

  • 5:59 WHOAH since when was John Myung playing the drums?!?!

  • @RaidonSama He's not playing, he's talking to Mike about something. When the camera pans out you can see the head of his Bongo bass and Mike playing to his right.

  • @SirDukeSeb It's a joke bro. When it panned over in the background I saw him behind the drums , and it looked really funny.

  • @RaidonSama He is not playing drum , we can see his bass :p

  • @RaidonSama Hahaha... looks like he was playing drums but he was actually just standing behind the kit lol

  • @RaidonSama Nice catch. He pops up with Mike at around 5:36. Hysterical!!

  • @RaidonSama lool xD

  • @RaidonSama just looks like it but his just beside Portnoy

  • @RaidonSama umm... do you not see portnoy and john myung playing the bass hes clearly holding a bass lol

  • He sounds like my Granny

  • I guess at least it's not all about Rep. for this band!

  • Labrie has gotten better since this. I would say that today he is as good as he's been since around Scenes From a Memory. Maybe even a little before that.

  • Sorry it's Gilbert O Sullivan... 

  • @ LUIZ

    Dream theater songs are all about creativity, this is my fav rock band after Iron maiden and Bon jovi, but i come to believe mostly music listeners have no sense to understand music at all, we have so many great artists who were never famous such names as Gilbert Sullivan and Lobo, who were very much creative in their genre..

  • I love Labrie but when he starts hitting the high notes on this song (and most of CiM DVD) he sounds like a prepubescent duck getting raped.

    Still love the guys voice though, mostly.

  • Why DT despite of such a great talent isn't so much popular ????

  • The intro was wierd, I would have preffered it to be the same as on the album.

  • Kinda lifeless...

  • These guys are ridiculous.

  • LaBrie sounds so terrible in this. Such a shame seeing as the studio version is on of the only DT songs I like.

  • Woo Keytar!

  • Petrucci is such a meatball. He looks funny holding that little guitar.

  • horrible singing

  • I wish LaBrie left instead of Portnoy.

  • @Siifter He's in his 40s. His voice has dropped alot at that age

  • James in this period was very very bad...

  • @shoppingeffect Check him out in SCORE (2006), his voice was next to perfect then... hmmm. I Guess it's touch and go with him.

  • @shoppingeffect yep but his new album is wiked !!

  • @shoppingeffect Listen to Take the Time from this DVD and...I don't think so.

  • Mind blowing solo from John and Jordan as always, 2 gods of music :)

  • The keys are wunderful,but La Brie is sooo Bad..He makes a Lot of Vibrato because He Don't find any tone..

  • when rudess is using his zen riffer, i'd go up on stage and steal all his keyboards.

    \m/ jordan

  • When did LaBrie(sp?) go to shit?!

  • @mckelvie77 I saw DT this summer with Maiden and LaBrie sounded good then. He must not have been at his best here.

  • Why does one of the best bands in the world have the worst singer?

  • @TreyPayneMusic Coz he used to sing well at the beginnig. In this times of changes, they should fire him!!! and get another one. Dont you think?

  • Dream Theater the best band alive ;)

    They come allways up with very good songs

  • about the drummer, bonzo was better. the singer must take care of your vocal cords and this mmmmm

  • oh sorry - i didn't saw that mike was standing next to him :b

  • now that we're talking "mike left". mike has tramsformed into myung at 5:59!! :O

  • So nice piece of music! Could anyone give me tips to get such a delay sound like Petrucci? The first guitar solo is incredible to me. I love it.

  • It's crazy that Mike left...

    I wonder who will replace him, I don't think they'll be the same with a different drummer.

  • mike smiles :)

    best song EVER!

  • I cant believe mike left :'(

  • jajaja, look the 6:02, where myung appears next to portnoy, jajaja finally he decided to leave his position on stage, jajaja...

  • that song makes me cry when a saw in Mexico i looove it

  • 6:02 What's Myung doing behind the drum kit?!

  • Brutal unison.

  • 7:57 aaaaaahhhhh. too bad james labrie sucked in this performance while the band had their best. but still i love labrie :P

  • 7:22 HAHAHAHAHA, Wha stchachs wahhdaa sa spcheeeaaahhhh. whats he singing? xD

  • @guitarnorway fag.

  • wow wow wow...

    this could be one of their best performance...

    love it when rudess went centre stage doin' his duet with petrucci...

    and what was myung doin' back there with mike 'the iron'...

    looked like they really enjoyed the show...

  • This is why DT is the only metal band that i like. I usually don't like the sounds of metallica, iron maiden etc, but they got such diverse sound. Amazing.

  • I'm seeing them with Iron Maiden, so they definitely won't be tired! But they will have a shorter set. Oh well, I get to see maiden too! Johm Petrucci and Dave Murray are two of my biggest guitar influences :D

  • at 1:48 he looks like the dude

  • His Vibrato is so wide, it's killing me.

  • Hey, the man vomitted up his vocal cords basicly. But he's still out there rocking with the best of his ability. Rush is my 2nd favorite band of all time but DT will remain the 1st. They just don't compare to this beauty and prog.

  • As much as it hurts to say it, being a long time Dream Theater fan, I cannot help but feel that they elongate this song, and other older compositions, just to over-compensate for James' lack of power these days so they can still 'wow' people. Call me a LaBrie hater (I certainly ain't one, I love him) but wouldn't you agree?. I really don't wanna hear this version of Surrounded, it's too far fetched. Compare this to Surrounded from Live in Tokyo and you'll see what I mean. Original is best.

  • @Grademike true, but they're just experimenting with new things- they wanna give more to there fans. not every single thing DT does has a subliminal message :P

  • I got this dvd...... Can't stop wathcing it :P DT is awsome and no matter how young they were or how old they are their music is pure awsomeness!!

  • But he DEFINITLY tries

  • Damn I have to get this DVD :P

  • YOU"VE GOT TO LOVE PETRUCCI AND RUDESS ALL THROUGH OUT! THEIR BATTLE AMAZED ME! 6:58

  • I wanna see in speed metal version?

  • simply the best

  • Gawd... LaBrie... your voice on that tour... makes...my...ears... bleed... still love ya... you ARE the voice of DT... you just sound... so... Canadian (lol for lack of a better word)... ProgNation09 was so much better... just wish you guys woulda kicked ZPZ off stage and gave us a longer set... cant wait to see you with Maiden...

  • Someone needs to unplug Petrucci from his Bane-juice before he explodes!

  • Dream Theater I LOV U!

  • awesome performance :) i think James does pretty well hittin them high notes :D

  • James, eww I think the sound guys need to EQ the vox a little more, im sure they can get it to sound better

  • 7:09 - 7:21 AMAZING!, love that part ;D

  • Love this song!!!.....LOVE this band!!!

    I was there that night Aug. 18, 2007 @ Molson Amphitheater - Toronto

    I'll see them again with Iron Maiden on July 3rd - same place Molson Amphi!!!!

  • Beautiful song.

    You should have a listen to "Surrounded" Live at the Marquee. Its got to be the best vocal performance of all time hands down.

  • @prank2844 You got that right!!! Metropolis pt1 Live at the Marquee is f@#kin' AWESOME!!!! Labrie's voice sounds awesome on that live CD...

  • @prank2844 Another Hand/The Killing Hand on Live at the Marquee = LaBrie's finest moment

  • Props to the guy working lights at 5:31.

  • James sounds very weird and tired on this video, he still hits the notes tho.

    Anyway I saw them live in Monterrey, México 5th march (few days ago) and he actually sang freaking ameazing!, including songs like take the time, voices and other kick asses songs

    I think he rested and trained enough becouse his voice now is fresh, clean and powerful again, I hope they can record a dvd before james gets tired again you will see hes an incredible singer, i admire him pretty much.

  • Funny at 5:12, James walks past JP's speakers with the vocal mic, causing a phaser effect :)

    The keyboard intro reminds of Final Fantasy VII... similar tone and general vibe.

  • DT's 1st lead sing was a guy called Charlie Dominici. The reasons why he left the band are unknown to me, but I'm sure as hell glad he did because Labrie is a hell of a singer. He's voice was severely affected due to a problem in his vocal chords but you should listen to him in his first recording especilly in the album "Live at the Marquee". hear this song in that album and also "fortune in lies" and then you will know that Labrie is the perfect singer for this band

  • @mbalbeira

    Dominici was actually the second singer, the first was Chris Collins. Dominici left the band because he came from a soul based band and he couldn't sing as high as the band needed. He explained this himself in the second DVD of Score, the documentary.

    I listened to the older recordings with LaBrie. He sounds good with DT's music but I never liked his voice very much. He's a good singer, but there are tons of better singer out there.

    It's my opinion but lots of people agree with me.

  • @YTazzkickr01 I think, that it's good, that James joined, because Chris and Charlie didn't have as identical voices as him. Otherwise, I like Dominici. Actually my fav recording with him is the "To Live Forever" from Wher Bream and Day Reunite. It just suits him better, then high notes.

  • y qué vocalista?...

  • I love this band so, so much...but ONLY THE MUSICIANS!! Makes me so fucking sad when amazing live performances of DT like this one are ruined because of LaBrie's horrible voice. His pussy yellings are impossible to understand!! I don't think he's a bad singer but I think he never was the right one for Dream Theater. In my opinion, because of him, this is not the PERFECT BAND...

  • john petrucci kind of looks like jesus. coincidence? i think not

  • Wn Si Labrie no cantara esta wea seria la raja :D

  • como? tu deci si DT tuviera otro vocalista?

  • If Labrie shaved his moustache off he would look exactly as he looked before, but with darker hair. Just a random fact hahaha.

  • labrie butchered this performance, along with every song in the chaos in motion dvd. but he's good now and he was good before this. its like he was only bad for this dvd

  • I think his voice isnt fully healed yet. Not his bestperformance. And omg mustache 0_o

  • I love labrie, but his voice is not very good here. he's deffinately gotten alot better since then.

  • I agree the Chaos In Motion tour he struggled a little bit here and they. However, on thier more recent Black Clouds and Silver Linnings CD and tour he sounds much stronger. Back like the old days and I am really glad for that!

  • I;ve got this dvd and it's awsome as usual :)

  • progressive moment

  • 6:05-7:23 great!

  • Such a shame he can't hit that high note... I love that part. Back in the earlier days, his voice was so much fuller during the high notes...

  • @Madad134 they didnt play surrounded or learning to live back when i went to their show (2 months ago), but i can assure you taht labrie can ;)

  • @Madad134 He can still sing high notes. Labrie sings great on Score DVD even better maybe than "earlier days" ;D but i agree that he sings terribly in this one

  • @Madad134 ..i'm sure that your highest notes in your best time never reach james highest notes in his badest time^^